Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology 117protuberance.beaded see moniliformbeak n. [OF. bec, beak] 1. Anything projecting and ending in apoint. 2. (ARTHRO) a. In Chelicerata, the gnathosome ofacarines. b. In Crustacea, the anteroventral projection ofthe free margin of the carapace; not equivalent to rostrum.c. In Insecta, the snout, proboscis, or rostrum; in Homoptera,usually 3-segmented, arising from the ventroposteriorof the head and directed backward under the body. 3.(BRACHIO) The pedicel valve. 4. (BRYO) The avicularia. 5.(MOLL) a. An angular projection of the apex of an intermediatevalve; a mucronate valve; a similar projection of theupper surface of the valve anteriorly and between the suturallaminae is termed a false beak. b. In Bivalvia, noselikeangle, along or above the hinge margin, marking thearea of shell growth. c. In Cephalopoda, paired horny mandibles.beaked apex (ARTHRO: Crustacea) In Balanomorpha, the upperangle of the tergum formed into a long narrow point.bean shaped see reniformbeard n. [L. barba, beard] 1. Any tuft of filaments on any partof an organism. 2. (ARTHRO: Insecta) For Diptera, seemystax. 3. (MOLL) see byssus. bearded a.bedeguar, bedegar n. [F. bedeguar, Per. bad-awar, windbrought](ARTHRO: Insecta) A cynipid gall of Rhoditesrosae; a pin-cushion gall.beebread n. (ARTHRO: Insecta) A bitter pollen stored by beesin the honeycomb that when mixed with honey is used forfood by larvae and newly-emerged workers; cerago. seeambrosia, fungus garden.bee dance (ARTHRO: Insecta) A series of movements performedby honeybees upon returning to the hive, that informsother bees of the location of the food source.bee lice (ARTHRO: Insecta) Small, flattened, apterous dipteranflies that are commensal with honeybees, often epizoic onthe workers or queens.bee milk see worker jelly